When I first started writing songs, I was almost quite embarrassed that I couldn't read music and I still to this day… — Freya Ridings Copy Share Image
There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music… — Daniel Ek Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I was always a musician that could play by ear better than I could analytically. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For a better life: Surround yourself with positive people...listen to good music...and smoke/vape organic herb. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put… — Darren Criss Copy Share Image
I never even went to high school because I went straight from middle school into the music business. I don't really know… — Cheyenne Kimball Copy Share Image
Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound. — Yo-Yo Ma Copy Share Image
In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,'… — Iggy Azalea Copy Share Image
If you're good, and you know you're good, and you know you're better than those people getting paid to do it, you… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
“We are Darwin’s confetti. Some of us fall on bare rock. No matter how good you are, you can fail spectacularly. Just… — Ingela Bohm Copy Share Image
It's so funny being a Christian musician. It always scares me when people think so highly of Christian music, Contemporary Christian music… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
Hip-hop has been the guiding light of my life as a musician and a music fan. It's the one common thread through… — James Vincent McMorrow Copy Share Image
A lot of musicians are good cooks, and a lot of cooks are musicians, but I think that may just be a… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“Jazz was about the spaces between notes. It was about what happened when you listened to the thing inside you. The gaps… — Rachel Joyce Copy Share Image
I have to perfect my beard every morning and it takes a long time. I think a lot of musicians are into… — Craig David Copy Share Image
Music is a very big participant in everything I do, from the moment I wake up to the moment I go to… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
As a musician, I have sung, composed, and played instruments, and a lesser-known fact is that I have composed 20-30 ad jingles… — Fawad Khan Copy Share Image
I grew up loving country music from a young age and wanted to sing more than I wanted to sit in school. — Carly Pearce Copy Share Image
Yoga introduced me to a style of meditation. The only meditation I would have done before would be in the writing of… — Sting Copy Share Image
Distrust your religion unless it is cheerful, unless it turns every act and deed to music and exults in attempts to catch… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Many of the African musicians are well-schooled and well-versed...what they do takes a high level of musicianship. — Jake Holmes Copy Share Image
Though I'm not the first king of controversy, I am the worst thing since Elvis Presley. To do black music so selfishly,… — Eminem Copy Share Image
My two favorite musicals growing up in were 'Annie' and 'Sweeney Todd,' and my best friend and I would sing all the… — Katie Finneran Copy Share Image
1000 miles seems pretty far but they've got plains and trains and cars. I'd walk to you if I had no other way. — Plain White T's Copy Share Image
There are certain sounds that I've found work well in nearly any context. Their function is not so much musical as spatial:… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence. — Amber Liu Copy Share Image
I grew up with a heavy diet of gospel, folk, and blues because those are kind of the cornerstones of traditional American… — Ben Harper Copy Share Image
I like the idea of the objecthood of music being destabilized by process and things like improvisation. That's what empowers us; that's… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Most of the greatest albums in the history of music are one producer. It's just a fact. Or one collective. — No I.D Copy Share Image
Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away… — Kenny Chesney Copy Share Image
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
Always, a form of self-equilibration, a soul or psyche, is trying to assert itself, to continue the melody of its self-realized life. — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I love music, I make films with music, I eat with music, I sleep with music, I think with music. Music makes… — Bahman Ghobadi Copy Share Image
“The most wretched people in the world are those who tell you they like every kind of music 'except country.” — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?” -“If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg… — Robin Benway Copy Share Image
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I wanted to talk about how stupid music is. I wanted to talk about how awesome music is, and how depressing it… — Phoebe Bridgers Copy Share Image
Music is an artform, and I always though art was beyond censorship. I thought this was a common view. Apparently, I was… — Varg Vikernes Copy Share Image
